The artist invites us to take a closer look at the swamps fueled for centuries by the myth of Narcissus. Nowadays these waters are no longer so beautiful, and the reflection offered is far from being as faithful as a mirror could produce. The only point in common with the story told by Ovid, is that our society as a whole plunges, gets lost, in these distorted images. Society drowns in these waters without taking the time to appreciate anything other than its sublimated representations.Through her paintings, which subjects come subconsciously to the artist's mind, Marion Peck is part of a surrealist tradition, filled with mythological references, building contemporary legends. Nothing speaks louder than these creatures with exaggerated body shapes, monstrous products of modern times. Marion Peck's practice also deals with the unconscious, buried dreams and nightmares that rise to the surface.
 
All your creatures, whether human of animal, have in common a special glance, eyes often wide open that express a lot. What do you want them to convey? "As they say, eyes are the windows of the soul. I would say that most of the time I am trying for the kind of neutral expression I find so wonderful in the art of the renaissance, where even a saint in the midst of martyrdom has a peaceful, faraway look in their eyes."